Whether (to us by Transmigration given),

He once was an Inhabitant of Heav'n,

And form'd for Musick, with Diviner fire

Endu'd, compos'd, for the Celestial Choir;

Not for the Vulgar Race of Light to hear,

But on High-days to glad th' Immortal Ear.

So in some leisure hour was sent away,

(Their Hour is here a Life, a Thousand years their Day.)

And what th' Ætherial Musick was to show,

And teach the wonders of that Art below;